07.25.21

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Following Techrights IRC Channels From the Command Line (or the Web and Gemini)

Posted in Site News at 7:19 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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Summary: The (almost) real-time logs for #techrights have been available in http://techrights.org/irc and in gemini://gemini.techrights.org/chat/index.gmi for over a month; today we extend that to cover all channels (aggregated into one)

THE past few months were spent dealing with IRC disruption like we’ve never experienced in over 13 years. We took the opportunity to make several improvements. This morning at around 2 AM we carefully checked the output (txt and html files) for #techpol, whose logging was finally automated yesterday, then tested thoroughly.

“Access and read IRC in (almost) real-time right from the command line.”Later in the moning we improved the tooling with some simple command line programs and pipelines. I’ve decided to (re)check and ensure it’s all consistent with Konversation (KDE) as shown on the screen (GUI), lessening interactions with bloated applications and reducing the need for notifications of any kind. In the process we’ve managed to create a sort of tool everyone can take advantage of. Access and read IRC in (almost) real-time right from the command line.

For all channels in one place (aggregated):

watch -n 5 "wget -qO- http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-status.txt | tail -20"

watch-all-channelsAll channels watched

For #techrights alone (different format, different source/node):

watch -n 5 "wget -qO- http://techrights.org/irc | tail -20"

#techrights channel watched#techrights channel watched

The 2 screenshots show what it looks like on my system. Watch and Wget are quite universal. On some systems they may need adding. To change refresh intervals to something other than 5 seconds alter the number after -n accordingly. The same is true for number of lines shown (tail -20)

From the Web (as shown in the video above, with a screenshot added below) it looks the same as before. We hope more people will take advantage of these interfaces (for which we run jobs/processes 24/7). █

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